Challenging conservatives who claim to be advocates of small government, Krystal Weeks links to David Boaz’s Cato@Liberty post revealing Republicans’ true beliefs about the role of government in our lives.

In a post about how local politicians handle education policy, writers at the Citizen Paine Blog, a site devoted to covering Pennsylvania politics, cite Marie Gryphon’s 2006 paper on the relationship between teachers’ salaries and education quality.